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Brawniness vs Puissance - What's the difference?

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Brawniness is a related term of puissance.


As nouns the difference between brawniness and puissance

is that brawniness is the state of being brawny or having brawn while puissance is power, might or potency.

brawniness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being brawny or having brawn.

    • puissance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Power, might or potency.
  • *, II.12:
    • We easily pronounce puissance , truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive.
  • * 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 66:
    • Any impression of mental puissance might have been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review or a linking script.
  • The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.

    • See also

    * pouvoir * puissant English abstract nouns ----